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Benjamin Wittes admires Brett Kavanaugh’s legal record. So why wouldn’t he confirm him?

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about why he admires Brett Kavanaugh’s legal record, but also why he wouldn’t vote to confirm Kavanaugh as a member of the Supreme Court. Further reading:Why I wouldn’t confirm Brett KavanaughKavanaugh’s Minnesota Law Review article, cited by Benjamin Wittes in this episodeKavanaugh on Judge David Barron’s book on Congress, the presidency, and war powers Follow Trumpcast on Twitter: @realtrumpcast Podcast production by A.C. Valdez and Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2

I do not believe that these charges can fairly prevent Judge Kavanaugh from serving on the court.

0:39.2

Women need to support women and men need to support women, and Kavanaugh has proven that

0:48.6

he is not ready for the Supreme Court.

0:51.8

Vote him down.

0:52.8

Well, once again, tonight Brett Kavanaugh has broken sharply with the tradition of Supreme

0:57.4

Court nominees and has decided to make another public statement outside of the Judiciary

1:02.8

Committee hearing room, which is usually the only place that we ever hear from a Supreme

1:07.2

Court nominee.

1:08.2

But I think his performance during the hearings caused me to change my mind.

1:17.7

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan.

1:20.8

So I tweeted this week that these confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh have been hell

1:25.4

on the hippocampus and they have.

1:28.2

For those of us who believed the manifest evidence that Kavanaugh assaulted Christine

1:32.9

Blasie Ford, and those of us who saw that Kavanaugh's incoherent and contradictory denials

1:38.0

only provided more evidence against him, the pain of this week has come in reliving Ford's

1:44.2

experience with Kavanaugh.

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